Improvement in artificial flowers



ELIZAF. PENLEY.

ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS. Nb'.178.379, Patented June 6,1876.

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N. PETERS. PHOTO-LWHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE,

ELIZA F. PENLEY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,379, dated June 6,1876 application filed I April 15,1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELIZA F. PENLEY, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew Improvement in Rattan-Flowers, of which the followin g is aspecification The accompanying drawing represents a perspective View ofan improved rattan-flower.

The object of my invention is to produce, as a new article ofmanufacture, flowers, leaves, and other ornamental articles ofrattan-pith, by which a striking and neat effect is produced. i

The invention consists of flowers, leaves, and other articles cut oflayers of rattan-pith or other wooden strips, wound in continuousstrands or coils and cemented together, the leaves being attached to asuitable stem.

In the drawing, A represents a flower, which is made up of a number ofleaves, B, that are cut or stamped out of a curved layer or sheet formedof rattan or other pith, which is wound in continuous strands or coiland cemented Flowers, leaves, and analogous articles, cut I out ofsheets or layers of rattan-pith, wound in a continuous strand or coil,and cemented to a stem, core, or other supporting device, substantiallyin the manner and for the purpose specified.

MRS. ELIZA F. PENLEY.

Witnesses PAUL GoEPEL, T. B. MOSHER.

